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Conflict Amid Consensus in American Trade Policy
Martha Liebler Gibson
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Paperback. Traces the competing forces that interject conflict into an overall consensus on the value of a liberalized trade policy. This title shows why it is impossible to understand trade legislation without first understanding how electoral politics and the institutional rules of Congress distort legislators' interests, incentives, and policy goals. Series: American Governance and Public Policy Series. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPQB; KCLT1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 370.
Americans have witnessed inconsistent and seemingly dramatic turnabouts in legislators' attitudes toward trade, with strong bipartisan support for free trade and the Uruguay Round in one instant and heated debate over participation in the World Trade Organization the next. Martha L. Gibson systematically traces the competing forces that interject conflict into an overall consensus on the value of a liberalized trade policy. Cutting through the tangled web of congressional politics, Gibson shows why it is impossible to understand trade legislation without first understanding how electoral politics and the institutional rules of Congress distort legislators' interests, incentives, and policy goals. Gibson's ... Read more
Americans have witnessed inconsistent and seemingly dramatic turnabouts in legislators' attitudes toward trade, with strong bipartisan support for free trade and the Uruguay Round in one instant and heated debate over participation in the World Trade Organization the next. Martha L. Gibson systematically traces the competing forces that interject conflict into an overall consensus on the value of a liberalized trade policy. Cutting through the tangled web of congressional politics, Gibson shows why it is impossible to understand trade legislation without first understanding how electoral politics and the institutional rules of Congress distort legislators' interests, incentives, and policy goals. Gibson's ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Georgetown University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Series
American Governance and Public Policy Series
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Washington, DC, United States
ISBN
9780878407941
SKU
V9780878407941
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About Martha Liebler Gibson
Martha L. Gibson is an associate professor of political science at the University of Connecticut and the author of Weapons of Influence: The Legislative Veto, American Foreign Policy and the Irony of Reform (Westview, 1992).
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